Topic: Write file DOC with MSWORD.OLB without WORD.application installed.

[FELIX]

I need to write a DOC file using only the MSWORD.OLB library file without WORD.application, without MSWord being installed.

I think there's an example here on this forum but I can't find it because it's been a long time since I saw it and I didn't need it at the time.

[kdub_nz]

Hi Felix,

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Regards,

[FELIX]

Thank you kdub_nz for sending it but I had already researched this and they all use "(setq msw (vlax-get-or-create-object "Word.Application"))" which means that MSWord must be installed.

[Lee Mac]

Word docs are just zipped XML, so you could write the XML as plain text and then zip it programmatically.

[FELIX]

XML are .DOCX files but I need it to be .DOC

[BIGAL]

Handy hint Lee same with Acad CUIX.

Can they not read the docx ? Docx was introduced in 2007 that is a lot of years ago.

Lots of free stuff out there if you trust to convert docx to doc. Do a google.